Watching you watching Bentham: The PanoptiCamhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0315/170315-the-panopticam
This month sees the launch of PanoptiCam, an online camera
that streams the live view from Jeremy Bentham’s auto-icon in the South
Cloisters. RSS FeedSiobhan Pipa2015-03-12T11:59:04ZUCL rated top UK
university by research strength in the REF2014http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1214/181214-ucl-results-ref
<strong> </strong>RSS FeedRuth Metcalfe2014-12-16T14:49:58ZPublishers address concerns on ‘total cost of ownership’ of e-resourceshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1014/291014-publishers-open-access
UCL welcomes the news that two major academic publishers are tackling the issue of subscription costs and the level of article-processing charges (APCs). RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2014-10-29T17:20:33ZNational Student Survey: improvement in student satisfactionhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0814/120814-national-student-survey-results-ucl
Student satisfaction at UCL has risen by 2%, according to the latest
National Student Survey (NSS) results. RSS FeedRuth Metcalfe2014-08-12T09:03:33ZTranscribe Bentham project reaches 10,000th transcriptionhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0714/230714-transcribe-bentham-10000-milestone
An experiment in ‘scholarly crowdsourcing’, which engages the public in the online transcription of papers written by the celebrated philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), has published its 10,000th transcription this week. RSS FeedRuth Metcalfe2014-07-23T15:34:35ZQueen’s Birthday Honours for the UCL communityhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0614/190614-queens-birthday-honours
<strong> A number of people from the UCL community have been
recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.</strong>RSS FeedSiobhan Pipa2014-06-19T13:09:59ZJeremy Bentham and the escaped convictshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0314/280314-bentham-escaped-convicts
<strong>The most well-known escape of prisoners transported from England to Australia in the 18th Century has been brought to life, thanks to handwritten accounts by the convicts unearthed in the collections of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham at UCL and now published online for the first time.</strong>RSS FeedSiobhan Pipa2014-03-26T15:09:18ZUCL top in research council incomehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1113/181113-research-income
UCL researchers and those
who support their grant applications to research councils are to be
congratulated, <em><strong>writes Professor David Price,
UCL Vice-Provost (Research)</strong></em>.RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2013-11-18T08:11:40ZMichelin star restaurant add Bentham recipe to their menuhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0813/30082013-Bentham-recipe-St-John
An 18th Century recipe recommended by Jeremy Bentham for inmates of his proposed Panopticon prison has been added to the menu at St. John restaurant in London.RSS FeedGeorge Wigmore2013-08-30T09:50:55ZBentham’s personal correspondence to be digitised for first timehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0713/18072013-Bentham-letters
Thousands of letters revealing a far more personal side of the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham and his family are set to be digitised as part of the UCL Transcribe Bentham project, uniting the entire collection of Bentham’s manuscripts for the first time since his death in 1832.RSS FeedGeorge Wigmore2013-07-18T09:26:36ZUCL students win 2013 National Mooting Competitionhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0713/05072013-national-mooting-competition
Two UCL students have won this year’s Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition for the first time in 41 years, having beaten Liverpool John Moores University in the President’s Court of the Royal Courts of Justice. RSS FeedGeorge Wigmore2013-07-05T15:37:59ZAlmost a quarter of jurors confused about rules on internet use during a trialhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0513/150513-jury-profect-internet-use-cheryl-thomas
Almost a quarter of jurors (23%) are unclear about the rules surrounding internet use during a trial, according to preliminary research led by Professor Cheryl Thomas (UCL Laws).RSS FeedRosie Waldron2013-05-15T16:00:48ZSounds of UCL: competition winners and panoramashttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0413/190413-sounds-of-ucl-winners-panoramas
What sounds make up London’s global university? UCL Communications has announced the winners of its ‘Sounds of UCL’ competition, which invited staff and students to capture ambient audio clips that reflect the life of UCL.RSS FeedLara J Carim2013-04-12T15:34:09ZCall for proposals: UCL–French Embassy science and technology workshopshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0313/20130326-french-embassy-workshops
UCL researchers are invited to submit funding proposals to run collaborative science and/or technology workshops as part of the UCL–French Embassy partnership.RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2013-03-26T16:27:19ZUCL Open Access Guidelines and Publishing Guidehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0313/13032013-open-access-guidelines-publication-policy
UCL guidelines on open access and a publishing guide are available to UCL researchers.RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2013-03-13T12:15:54ZRecord number of Marie Curie Fellowships for research
at UCLhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1212/181212-Marie-Curie-Fellowships
23 postdoctoral
researchers from 14 different countries have been awarded Marie Curie
Individual Fellowships. The awards will enable researchers to spend up to two
years working with research teams across all schools at UCL. <br />RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2012-12-18T12:42:31ZUCL Grand Challenges £5,000 grants availablehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1211/20121123-grand-challenges-grants-available
The UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants Scheme invites
applications to fund cross-disciplinary projects in Global Health, Sustainable
Cities, Intercultural Interaction and Human Wellbeing. RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2012-12-06T14:58:01ZUCL Research Frontiers Contest resultshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1211/06112012-research-frontiers-contest-results
The results of the UCL Research Frontiers contest have been announced, celebrating the fact that curiosity-driven
discovery and analysis has been a feature of UCL from its foundation.RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2012-11-06T13:10:34ZUCL Behaviour Change Month – November 2012http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1210/23102012-behaviour-change-month-grand-challenge-human-wellbeing
UCL Behaviour Change Month in November 2012 will comprise a series of cross-disciplinary talks,
discussions and workshops, and lead up to a £10,000 research prize workshop in January 2013. RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2012-10-23T13:13:00ZUCL Discovery downloads surpass 2mhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1210/05102012-Discovery-open-access-downloads
The
total number of papers, reports and PhD dissertations downloaded from <a href="http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/" target="_blank">UCL
Discovery</a>, the university’s Open Access repository,
surpassed 2,000,000 during September 2012.RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2012-10-05T14:24:15ZRecord support for early career researchers http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1209/05092012-record-support-early-career-researchers
Researchers
at UCL have been awarded a total of 17 Starting Grants by the European Research
Council (ERC), the highest number awarded at UCL under a single funding call to
date. These grants have a total value of €21.6 million. RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2012-08-30T11:00:14ZConfirmation and Clearing 2012http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1208/16082012-confirmation-and-clearing-2012
UCL is pleased to announce that it has filled all its places for
2012 entry to its undergraduate degree programmes. RSS FeedRuth Metcalfe2012-08-16T09:23:23ZDirector-Designate of the UCL European Institute soughthttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1207/120710-european-institute-director-post
The Office of the UCL
Vice-Provost (Research) invites applications from UCL academic staff for the
post of Director of the UCL European Institute, to succeed Professor Richard
Bellamy. The appointee will shadow Professor Bellamy in 2012/13 and take over in
August 2013 for a three-year period. RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2012-07-10T11:52:26ZNew applications for UCL Provost’s Venture Research Fellowship invitedhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1206/20120622-applications-for-venture-research-prize-invited
Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution &amp;
Environment) addresses one of the most fundamental questions: how did complex
life arise? He does so as the inaugural UCL Provost’s Venture Research Fellow,
a programme for which new applications are invited. RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2012-06-22T09:15:00ZUCL Vice-Provost responds to Open Access reporthttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1206/19062012-vice-provost-finch-response
Implementation of the Finch Report on Open Access would &quot;cripple university systems
with extra expense&quot;, responds Professor David Price, UCL Vice-Provost (Research).RSS FeedNicholas W Tyndale2012-06-20T13:36:03Z